Woodside Fire in North Bay reaches 40% containment 3%

By KTVU Staff9%

8/1/2026, 5:09:59 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 17.2% saturation with 29 hits. Analysis detected 38 faulty-reasoning hits from 169 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 9.9% and a BS Rank of 3% (24,978 of 25,564 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.70% of the article peer group.

The Woodside Fire burning along the Sonoma County Coast reached 40% containment on Saturday. 
CAL FIRE says the fire  which started Thursday afternoon west of Highway 1 near the Timer Cove and Jenner neighborhoods  has burned 152 acres, and that Saturday’s firefighting efforts would be focused on locating hot spots throughout the fire and work on reinforcing the containment lines along the highway. 
Evacuation orders had been in place for Zone SON-1D1 covering Salt Point State Park and Timber Cove, as well as the areas north of Fort Ross Road south of Kruse Ranch Road and Hauser Bridge Road, east of the coastline, and west of the south fork of the Gualala River. 
However, the evacuation orders were lifted late on Friday. 
No injuries have been reported from the fire, though the smoke rising from the flames resulted in hazy skies and polluted air lingering over portions of the North Bay. 
The cause of the fire is under investigation. 
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